SEO report for howtonotcode.com
https://howtonotcode.com/ · checked Wed, 11 Nov 2026 12:40 GMT
Fix these first
- www / non-wwwmedium
Both www.howtonotcode.com and howtonotcode.com load without redirecting – Google may see duplicate sites.
Fix: Pick one version (with or without www) and 301-redirect the other to it.
- Question-led contentmedium
No headings phrased as questions.
Fix: Add headings that match real questions ("How much does…?") followed by a direct one- or two-sentence answer – an easy format for search and AI answers to quote.
- Freshness signalsmedium
No published/updated date found.
Fix: Show a 'last updated' date and add dateModified to your structured data.
- Tap-to-contactmedium
No tel: or mailto: links.
Fix: Add a tap-to-call or tap-to-email button so phone visitors can contact you instantly.
- Topic focushigh
4 of 6 title keywords appear in the main content (missing: best, beginners).
Fix: Use your main title phrases naturally in the opening paragraph and headings.
- Faviconlow
No favicon linked.
Fix: Add a square favicon at least 48×48px.
- Readabilitymedium
Flesch reading ease 46 (fairly difficult), about 12 words per sentence.
Fix: Use shorter sentences and everyday words – aim for a score of 50+ for customer-facing pages.
- Heading structuremedium
34 headings for 1145 words – a lot for the amount of text.
Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.
Real-world speed Google PageSpeed
Loading Core Web Vitals from Google… this can take up to 30 seconds.
Authority & backlinks
Looking up which websites link to howtonotcode.com…
Indexing & crawling 92%
Can search engines reach, read and index this page?
- ✓
Status codecritical
The page returned HTTP 200.
- ✓
Indexablecritical
No noindex instruction – the page can appear in search.
- ✓
robots.txthigh
robots.txt found.
Googlebot is allowed to crawl this page.
- ✓
XML sitemaphigh
Sitemap found at https://howtonotcode.com/sitemap.xml with 3,942 URLs.
Declared in robots.txt.
This page is listed in it.
Most recent lastmod: 2026-11-08.
- ✓
Canonical URLhigh
Canonical: https://howtonotcode.com/
Points to this page (self-referencing).
- ✓
Redirectshigh
Loads directly with no redirects.
- ✗
www / non-wwwmedium
Both www.howtonotcode.com and howtonotcode.com load without redirecting – Google may see duplicate sites.
Fix: Pick one version (with or without www) and 301-redirect the other to it.
Search snippet & sharing 92%
How the page looks in Google results and when shared.
- ✓
Title tagcritical
“Best Ai Coding, Programming Tools For Beginners Developers”
About 556px of Google's ~580px desktop width.
- ✓
Meta descriptionhigh
158 characters, ~982px of ~990px.
Good length.
Google sometimes rewrites descriptions to match the search; a good one is still used most often.
- ✗
Faviconlow
No favicon linked.
Fix: Add a square favicon at least 48×48px.
- ✓
Languagelow
lang="en"
Content quality 77%
Is there enough clear, useful text that matches what the page targets?
- ✓
Word countmedium
1,145 words of main content (inside <main>).
Google has no minimum word count – this is a rough guide to whether the page answers the question in full.
- !
Readabilitymedium
Flesch reading ease 46 (fairly difficult), about 12 words per sentence.
Fix: Use shorter sentences and everyday words – aim for a score of 50+ for customer-facing pages.
- !
Topic focushigh
4 of 6 title keywords appear in the main content (missing: best, beginners).
Fix: Use your main title phrases naturally in the opening paragraph and headings.
- ✓
H1 headingcritical
“howtonotcode .com”
- !
Heading structuremedium
34 headings for 1145 words – a lot for the amount of text.
Levels are in order.
Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.
- ✓
Text-to-code ratiolow
13% of the HTML is visible text.
AI search readiness 69%
Can ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews read, understand and cite this site?
- ✓
AI crawler accesshigh
Search and AI-search crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot…) can read this page.
- ✓
Snippet controlshigh
No snippet restrictions – search and AI answers can quote this page.
- ✓
llms.txtlow
/llms.txt found.
- ✗
Question-led contentmedium
No headings phrased as questions.
Fix: Add headings that match real questions ("How much does…?") followed by a direct one- or two-sentence answer – an easy format for search and AI answers to quote.
- ✓
Entity clarityhigh
Identified as: Organization.
2 official profile link(s) (sameAs).
- ✗
Freshness signalsmedium
No published/updated date found.
Fix: Show a 'last updated' date and add dateModified to your structured data.
- !
Trust pages (E-E-A-T)medium
Links found to about and privacy; missing contact.
Fix: Link to About, Contact and Privacy pages from every page – they help visitors, Google and AI tools see who stands behind the content.
Structured data 100%
Machine-readable facts for rich results and AI.
- ✓
JSON-LD present & validhigh
1 JSON-LD block(s): WebSite, Organization, CollectionPage, ItemList, ListItem.
All blocks parse correctly.
- ✓
Required propertiesmedium
Key types include Google's required properties.
Recommended but missing: Organization.logo.
Links 100%
Internal linking, anchor text and broken links.
- ✓
Internal linkinghigh
50 internal and 0 external links.
- ✓
Anchor text qualitymedium
No link text points to two different pages.
- ✓
Broken links (sample)high
Checked 12 internal link(s).
No broken links found.
Performance 93%
Speed signals from the HTML and server. Real-user Core Web Vitals load below.
- ✓
Server response (TTFB)high
556 ms until the first response from our checker, including connection setup (Google rates TTFB good under 0.8 s, poor over 1.8 s).
- ✓
HTML sizemedium
68 kB of HTML.
- ✓
Compressionmedium
Compressed with gzip.
- ✓
Render-blocking resourceshigh
0 blocking script(s) and 2 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
- ✓
Scripts & third partiesmedium
4 script tag(s); files loaded from 0 other domain(s).
- ✓
Imagesmedium
No <img> tags.
- ✗
Cachinglow
No Cache-Control header.
Fix: Set Cache-Control so browsers and CDNs can reuse the page.
- i
HTTP/3low
Couldn't be confirmed from our server – the alt-svc header that advertises HTTP/3 isn't always visible to it. Your site is on Cloudflare, which offers HTTP/3 under Network settings.
Security 100%
Visitor safety signals that browsers and Google check.
- ✓
HTTPScritical
Secure HTTPS with no mixed content.
- ✓
HTTP → HTTPS redirecthigh
http:// redirects to https://.
- ✓
HSTSmedium
HSTS: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload, max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload
- ✓
Security headerslow
Present: CSP, nosniff, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, clickjacking protection.
- ✓
Server fingerprintlow
No X-Powered-By header (server: cloudflare).
Mobile & accessibility 83%
Usable on phones and by everyone – Google indexes the mobile version.
- ✓
Mobile viewportcritical
viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
- ✓
Image alt textmedium
No images.
- ✓
Form labelsmedium
All 5 form fields are labelled.
- ✓
Link nameslow
Every link has a readable name.
- ✗
Tap-to-contactmedium
No tel: or mailto: links.
Fix: Add a tap-to-call or tap-to-email button so phone visitors can contact you instantly.
Local SEO not scored
This site doesn't look like a local business, so these checks are shown for information and not scored.
- i
LocalBusiness markuphigh
No LocalBusiness structured data.
- i
Contact details on pagemedium
No phone number found.
No postcode found (fine for service-area businesses).
- i
Map & directionslow
No map or directions link.